How to shoot yourself in the foot

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C: You shoot yourself in the
foot.

C: Sie schießen sich in
den Fuß.

FORTRAN: You shoot
yourself in every toe, slowly, one by one, until all toes are used up. Then
you read the next foot and repeat the process. You will continue, even though
you have used up all the ammunition, because there's no routine for exception
handling.

PL/I: You use up
all the system resources including the off-line ammunition. DP and personnel
management double it's size, triple their budgets, buy four new mainframes
and let the old one drop on your foot.

C++: You incidentally
create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot all of them in the foot. First
aid isn't possible, as it cannot be decided which instances are bit-accurate
copies and which only point to other ones: "Over there that's me."

Smalltalk: You are
spending so much time playing with the graphics and the windowing system,
that your boss will shoot you in the foot, takes away your work station and
has you coding Cobol on a character-based terminal.